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No they will not trip over themselves to only hire women to increase their profits. Remember, women take maternity leave; they must stay home when the kids are sick; etc. If they had a workforce of women then men I have worked with in the past would talk about the lack of stability in that workforce because of the extended leave time that women take that men do not typically require and or utilize.

Further women choose teachers, based on a number of studies, because they want to be home in the summer with their children and because they want to nurture. The one thing that most school systems do that is go is they have a pay matrix that determines pay on a step system where education and years of experience determine your pay scale and gender is not a factor. The downside to this pay system is that high performers make the same as sub par performers.




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